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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 10. 1937 Page 6 NEWS AND COMMENT BQKMAL (Continued from Page 1) present day industries and processes and flexible enough to be a blessing to the would industrial as change processes change, workers, and a guarantee of maintaining wage rates and work ing conditions, that would mean better living conditions, higher standards, fuller lives to the nation's workers, and industrial peace based upon mutual respect between employer and em ploye. A nation that not only grants to its people the right to organize, but also sees to it that its people are protected in ex ercising that right, need fear no danger from enemies within nor without its borders. (Continued from Page 7) failure all but crushes her, if not quite. And yet, these two may not be entirely to blame. Sometimes, unwittingly to be sure, you and I may be to blame. There is a potential suicide within a twenty mile radius of the Salt Lake post office. It may take place five or ten years hence or it may be indefinitely postponed. And a suicide indefinitely postponed (no less than a wedding) is as good as none at all. Immoral remarks and unmoral examples have loosened the brake bands in some lives that have set them rolling toward the precipice of self destruction. On the contrary, conversations that strengthen character and invitations to places such as church and lodge and good plays have added the mite of influence that strengthened the restraints so that in emergency they held; or better still, changed the course of a life away from the precipice. Someone within a 20 mile radius of the Salt Lake post office may be a potential sui- A WORKINGMANS PROTEST ' By DR. CHARLES STELZLE Executive Director, Good Neighbor League You may determine the distance of a star by multiplying the number of seconds that it requires for a ray of its light to travel to the earth. You may know exactly what will result wben certain chemical substances are brought together. But you can never tell precisely what a man will do under circumstances which have been familiar to the world since the beginning of time. The element of human nature will not permit itself to be classified and catalogued. It resents every attempt to force it into the laboratory for the purpose of analysis. FARMERS AND LABOR LINK HANDS It objects very strenuously to being placed upon the operating table for the purpose of dissection. There are degrees of human nature so fine that they cannot At a time when close cooperation between working farmbe measured by the most exact micrometer that was ever iners and organized labor is becoming increasingly essential to vented. To the man who would cram it into a mould it maniinsure passage of farm and labor legislation, renewed attempts fests its indignation by breaking the barrier that confines it. You are being made by profiteering reaction to drive a wedge be these tween cannot deal with men as the entomologist deals with his miltwo natural allies. But encouraging evidence comes from both farm and labor lions of bugs. They refuse to be grouped." And they prove it this by annihilating the carefully made deductions of the sociolocamps that attempt to divide and conquer is being sucd common-sens- e of those cessfully resisted by the gists. who realize they have everything to gain from working together. Sometimes these superior beings are surprised to find that The recent national convention of the Farmers Union in their subjects' have forced their way into the holy of Holies" cide. Oklahoma City rejected all anti-laband the social grade to which they themselves belong. No resolutions, no matter You chartheir may strengthen how cleverly they were camouflaged. longer are these high brows" the high priests with peculiar Attempts to turn the acter, contribute to their confifarmers against and to inveigle dence and so fortify their faith privileges. Their sociological rules cannot account for it. They legislation, them into vigilante groups were all defeated. that one suicide may be indefinite- regard with astonishment the working man who seems to posA message from John L. Lewis emphasizing the common ly postponed. sess powers equal to their own. You may do this great thing by interests of farmers and labor was loudly applauded, and the With impunity have they been prodding their the power of words, by the power 1. of President into his private affairs. Without shame have they been C. the Henderson O. of and fingers speech Cannery of example, by the power of Workers Union was greeted with an ovation. Agricultural slumming in the respectable tenement house district in which he makes his home, subjecting his wife and children to the Finally, the convention adopted a ringing resolution on cohumiliation of the outcast in society. operation with organized labor. This resolution responds in BIBLE QUOTED IN COURT No, ye students of the working class, ye cannot deal friendly spirit to the action of the recent Atlantic City conferwith us as ye dealwith the beings and the objects of a lower soence of the Committee for Industrial Organization in support An Albuquerque baker quoted: cial order. But brother is an open sesame to of the organized farmers demands. It commends the C. I. O. Man shall not every heart, treasures ' for this stand and instructs the officers of the Farmers' Union except in ;heaven,storein up even each heart have though all beat a its to own. may objecting to confer with the representatives of organized labor to deter- paying taxes to take care of fumine the possibilities of establishing cooperative activities that ture unemployment of his force. meeting the emergency should of the words of Christ, Render The fact that the state commis- hearten those especially interested unto Caesar the will further our common economic, legislative and'organiza sioner are that things also the hard-heade- ce or wage-and-hou- rs kid-glove- quoted tional aims. From the (abor side, the specious arguments about division of farm and labor interests were recently knocked into a cocked hat in a speech by E. L. Oliver, executive vice president of Labors League, before the South Dakota Conference for Progressive Legislation, where he pledged league support for farm legislation. Those who try to make you believe that the wage earners are your enemies will tell you that the industrial workers must buy your products, and you must buy theirs; that you are interested in high prices for what you sell, and low prices for what you buy; that the s are likewise interested in high wages and in low prices for the necessities of life, Oliver Non-Partis- an wage-earner- said. ,p"r So, by the reasoning of the interests who oppose both farmers and wage earners, these two groups of course should an aance Lets look at that reasoning. Every farmer buys the products of other farmers.- - Dairy farmers must buy flour; wheat farmers must buy meat; livestock raisers must buy sugar, and so on. But does that make your interests different from the interests of other farmers? Does that make you want to force the prices of other farmers down below a decent living? Or do you farmers sit down together, regardless of your individual product, working out nt your problems jointly? And among the wage earners, even more than among farmers, it is true that each man must buy the products of other wage earners. . . . Does that make eaer to force the wages of those other workers? Or do they jn; gether. in great national organizations, to promote the welfare of all labor? "Why, then, if farmers buying each others products car cooperate, and wage earners buying each others products can cooperate why are farmers and wage earners prevented from cooperation simply because they buy each others products? tm d'n V V TV Merry Christmas to Labor Salt Lake, Inc. The Worlds Greatest Stoker Beautiful, Silent, Automatic. Hydraulic Transmission entirely eliminates shear-pi- n and trouble. 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